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My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

Tuesday July 25th, 2023
Dearest Friends of Biff Rose ~
Biff passed away this morning, sitting comfortable in his rocking chair, listening to Tibetan morning chants, Jennifer massaging his head, while I rubbed his feet. Biff's transition into the light was incredibly peaceful, dignified & beautiful. (time of death 9:56 am CT) https://www.facebook.com/biffrose

Some Great Songs: 
Buzz the Fuzz! 

Paradise Almost Lost: 

Ain't No Great Day Coming Tomorrow 'cause it's Here Today!

Hello, Dolphin - They have that Natural Christlike Zeitgeist!


Gentle People performed on TV... I think this was the inspiration for Spinal Tap's Listen to the Flower People... 


Fill Your Heart: "Love Cleans the Mind and makes it FREE"
Cabin in the Woods near Mendocino, CA
Cabin in the Short Forests of Mendocino

and Biff Said: 
that particular land where Laurel's cabin was is known as the Pygmy Forest...there is a saline solution in the sol..makes the redwoods banzai tree size///redwoods that grow no taller tan your neck.....befriend Josh Lowell now..he's Laurrel's kid...he gives tours of..or gave tours of the pygmy forest and knows every tree by name
Biff Rose and I Near Humboldt Bay, California

Biff in front of His Friend's Library in the Cabin near Mendocino
Library in the Cabin...
We stopped at a Grocery store on the way to the Cabin and bought Salmon for dinner... all paid for by Biff's "Obamabucks" - what he called Social Security... 

After Dinner we watched a Trump/Hillary Debate on TV and the Gentleman who lived in the Cabin was OUTRAGED! and he was Very Knowledgeable about the details of Politics, foreign policy... gee... I guess reading all those books made a difference!  

Pacific Ocean near Ft. Bragg, CA
Pacific Ocean near Ft. Bragg, CA

as WE were driving from Highway 101 to the Coast we came to the Top of the Hill and I could see Blue Sky behind the Last Row of Redwood Trees... and the Anticipation of Viewing the Pacific Ocean was... Extreme! and then... WHOOSH... we were over the hill and there was the Ocean... and I pulled over at the very first place to get out and experience the View, Cool Breeze and the Smell. 

Pacific Ocean near Ft. Bragg, CA
Pacific Ocean near Ft. Bragg, CA

Pacific Ocean near Ft. Bragg, CA


Back Deck at the Cabin near Mendocino
Back Deck at the Cabin near Mendocino

Back Deck at the Cabin near Mendocino

Inside the House was an Electric Piano... and After Biff and I Got Stoned on Marijuana, he Played it... for his own amusement... and we got to listen...

Back Deck at the Cabin near Mendocino

Earlier we went to that Fancy Restaurant in  Eureka.

Fancy Restaurant on Woodley Island near Eureka, CA
In the Restaurant at Woodley Island Marina 

Biff Rose at the Fancy Restaurant on Woodley Island near Eureka, CA

Fishing Boats near the Fancy Restaurant on Woodley Island near Eureka, CA

Classic Psychedelic Art by gvan42

Biff Rose and a Classic Car



Biff Rose plays the Mighty Kurzeill - Alien Supremacy - Album Cover Cartoon


Instrumental Music by 
Biff Rose on the Mighty Kurzweill... 
and
Mostly Piano sounds...
and 
Outer Space!
and
Swinging Progressive Jazz... 

Talking... excellent but, WHO IS JOE???

Even More Talking by Biff... World Trade Organization Protests

Painting of Biff Rose

Biff and Me at Home. Eureka, CA

Biff in Eureka, CA
Eureka, I Have Found It, California

Paul "Biff" Rose ~ American comedian / singer-songwriter passed away at the age of 85 at his home in Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday July 25th.
Born in New Orleans, Rose's popularity in the Greenwich Village folk scene prompted a 1964 NY Times profile on the young singer. Biff moved to Hollywood in 1966 where he found a job working as a comedy sketch writer with George Carlin on the John Davidson show. In 1968 Rose released his first album The Thorn in Mrs. Rose's Side, containing his best known composition, Fill Your Heart, co-written with Paul Williams and famously covered by both David Bowie on his album Hunky Dory and Tiny Tim on the B-side of his hit single Tip Toe Thru The Tulips. Rose made 10 appearances on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show from 1968 to 1970, bringing his cherubic wit and wondrous piano playing to millions of viewers. He also performed on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, American Bandstand, and Hugh Hefner's Playboy After Dark. Biff emceed the Atlantic City Pop Festival of 1969 and the Atlanta Pop Festival of 1970.
Rose spent the better part of the 70's performing in every small town in America, driving his piano equipped red Volkswagon bus further off the beaten paths of the music industry and deeper into uninhibited improvisations & poetic free expression. Biff's 1978 album "Roast Beef" was produced by Monkee Mike Nesmith and all 14 songs were recorded in one continuous take.
The 80's found Rose living above a jazz club in San Francisco, before moving abroad to Germany, and teaching an English slang course to university students in Göttingen. Returning to live in New Orleans, Biff rooted back into the local culture. His album Bone Again (1996) paints a picture of his colorful surroundings, where face painting tourists in the streets became one of his main artistic expressions for the next 25 years.
In 2009 Biff began regular trips to Cambridge Massachusetts and started Mythological Records with Apollo Sunshine singer Jesse Gallagher. The two recorded & released numerous albums including The Thorn 2 (2010) and in 2017, Biff & Jesse toured the United States, performing in clubs from NY to Los Angeles to celebrate Rose's 80th birthday. Mythological Records continues to release new and unreleased archived Biff Rose material. There are over 30 albums spanning his entire career available to download on www.biffrose.bandcamp.com
Later in his life, Biff curated an "infamous" Facebook page that he operated like a tabloid newspaper, reflecting on the times with daily satirical writings and cartoons that would rouse up his readers and consistently get him into trouble with the censors. Fans knew where his heart was, and trusted some of his more far out humor would be laughed at in the future.
Biff is survived by his 4 children, Terry, Andy, Eben & Quicksilver Rose. A celebration of life is being planned for October in New Orleans, where Biff will be placed in a tomb alongside many notable jazz musicians in one of the oldest historical graveyards in the city.

and Jennifer Pendur Wrote on FaceBorg:
Biff tended to get up in the middle of the night and sit in his chair in the front room, waiting quietly until something moved in him to write or make a cartoon, sometimes several cartoons, and essays and refining the phrasing of certain routines as you do... knowing that "that hard-core of faithful readers" would be right there as soon as he posted... he took this on as a sort of a mission, up until he couldn't bear to do it any more, for various reasons, and at that point he was sent to FB jail, so it was no longer a choice. I will continue to maintain this page and hope everybody will continue to contribute any Biff-related material, stories and anecdotes, things that happened in your connection with him that were important to you, whatever you want to share. I am hoping to get together another book in addition to what he left for publication in those many famous trunks... a book of "fans and friends" writings... pardon me if I have already said this... and I am very likely to say it again in the future... if you would prefer to send things to my email instead of posting online, that would be swell. I would like to encourage you all to make videos or voice recordings that might be possibly used in a documentary, or played at some point in the October 15th Birthday Celebration and Memorial Gumbofest. If you have not heard, there are plans for his ashes to be installed in the Musicians Vault in New Orleans, thanks to his peemp Rob de Florence... keep in touch and also check out the Friends of Biff Rose page where people are also posting a lot of great material!

Biff Rose - singer songwriter - piano - and Online Writer

Biff Rose - singer songwriter - piano - and Online Writer

Biff Rose - singer songwriter - piano - and Online Writer

Biff Rose - singer songwriter - piano - and Online Writer

and then Biff Said on FaceBorg:
AI Music won't destroy music..it will just be known as AI MUSIC to distinguish it from Country Music or Classical Music or Commercial 3 minute song music whose unofficial "leading" is randy newman from the last century with those dollar signs painted in his eyes....those solo so called white guys..are rich and amous and put on the back burner or side burner now that the kids have more buttons to press and fewer real reelings to make us go wow...we who know the limit of tricks right where the he_art stops and don't care to press on ( the buttons ) but use the VISUALS.like you never have to HEAR a dylan song again just check out the profile....look..Springsteen has his sleeves rolled up....oh look...tony bennet has an extra punch thanks to Lady GaGa...Billy Eyelash ? Oh..THOSE are the bland runaways...bridging and brimming a lyric and musical gap.....ooh look how short......that must be Paul Williams.....who's that guy wears a red and white t-shirt? Hmmmmm....using Facebook to prolong a solo white male spermacy....hmmmmmm...sticky issue.

and here's a Classic Biff "Improvisational Jazz Word Thang" Post:
Letter to my vyfe Susanna Menke ins Deutschhland...
Hey Suss..you're turning into a real rock writer...you blended courageous with carousing to my posthumous...and last nite was a revolutionary nite in nooAWlinz and therefore THE VURLD'S musik....My Peemp Rob of Florence put together a band of volk uniting Fats Domino rock with john prine country folk..
You'd never find a convention of domino
-prine fans under one roof over any circumstances
plus Al "Carnival Time " Johnson....Al wrote THE mardi gras national anthem...GO 0n youtube and check out Because it's Carnival time...so Al is there with Patricia Diamond Billy Diamond' s daughter...Billy Diamond was Antoine Dominoes best friend and nicknamed him FATS..
Billy died in LA six or seven years ago but always wanted to be buried in nooAWlinz so you can see us all at the cemetary...me giving Fats some tips on how to construct a real non binary Vienese Waltz...it's on one of m FB pages....so we're all at the same table in the overcrowded jam and jelly packd Pontchartrain Hotel...bar.....and Curling Herman whats his name on drums right next to Lady P's left ear or what's LEFT of her ear....and Petey her French shitsu one hundred year old puppy winding his way biting people on the leg and drinking way too much.....Mike Fulton the giant Seattle Dixieland trumpeteer brings a Russian jazz musician who owned a club in Moscow but left day after the war started..he teached
taught me "wordplay" in russian......something sounds like....e-gra slovo....I tell him develop the theme for a sing a long a russian kumbaya and remind him how we hate the russians.....with Carnival Time and his one huge hit Carnival Time I tell him ":listen Al you gotta write the flip side..LENT TIME....
He laughed..I'll remind him of it in 5 years...Hey Suss..you're turning into a real rock writer...you blended courageous with carousing to my posthumous...and last nite was a revolutionary nite in nooAWlinz and therefore THE VURLD'S musik....My Peemp Rob of Florencce put together a band of volk uniting Fats Domino rock with john prine country folk..
You'd never find a convention of domino
-prine fans under one roof over any circumstances
plus Al "Carnival Time " Johnson....Al wrote THE mardi gras national anthem...GO 0n youtube and check out Because it's Carnival time...so Al is there with Patricia Diamond Billy Diamond' s daughter...Billy Diamond was Antoine Dominoes best friend and nicknamed him FATS..
Billy died in LA six or seven years ago but always wanted to be buried in nooAWlinz so you can see us all at the cemetary...me giing Fats some tips on how to construct a real non binary Vienese Walyz...so we're all at the same table in the overcrowded jam and jelly packd Pontchartrain Hotel...bar.....and Curling Herman wahts his name on drums right next to Lady P's ear and Petey her French shitsu one year old puppy winfin his way biting people on the leg and drinking way too much.....Mike Fulton the giant Seattle Dixieland trumpeteer brings a Russian jazz musican who owned a club in Moscow but left day after the war started..he teached
taught me "wordplay" in russian......something sounds like....e-gra slovo....I tell him develop the theme for a sing a long a russian kumbaya and remind him how we hate the russians.....with Carnival Time and his one huge hit Carnval Time I tell him ":listen Al you gotta write the flip side..LENT TIME....
He laughed..I'll remind him of it in 5 years.
I taught the Russkie my Japanese Chinese translation of Blueberryy Hill....."I found my threar on Brew belly hear."


Biff Rose Newspaper Article 1964


Dylan and Baez came to see me at the Gaslight Caf� in November 1964 after the above article appeared in the NY Times on Nov. 14th. I was opening for Mississippi John Hurt�.or Son House or Skip James�maybe Dylan and Baez came to see them�..Dylan wanted to meet me after my two encore show�the best show I ever did at the Gaslight�.he stuck his hand out to shake�it was limp�I like that�.rednecks like to squeeze it�I'm a piano player�I like to take it easy�Dylan said, "And this is Joanie Baez�"�.actually it was Clarence "Sam" Hood,Jr. who came backstage after my show. "Biff" he said, "come here..there's someone I want you to meet�.." Dylan and I shook hands and he said, "And this is Joanie Baez�" I said, "Joanie WHO?" to settle a score between us from a year and a half before�.a bunch of us were singing "We Shall Overcome" onstage after a Baez concert at Earlham College in Richmond,Indiana�1963�Baez came over to me looked me in the eye and said, "You're singing too loud." "Joanie WHO?" says I�the teaching here being..you CAN'T sing TOO LOUD for Civil Rights�she's a big phony and Dylan just wanted to phuck'er anyway then cop out explaing to Scorsese some bullschitt about mixing up ""love"" with "wisdom" �yawn�boring�.only Biff rose above anything they have to say because he heard that same old schitt yesterday�..yesterday their raves fell in a maze of old cliches�. .

Autobiography: Northshore Lake Tahoe and Squaw Valley. and Some Trips with my parents... I remember riding the Tram to the top of Squaw Valley in the summer...

Many Bicycle riders were going to the top in order to ride down. I just went there to walk around and look at the Lake and the mountains. At the top is a Restaurant/Bar and an Ice Skating rink. I got a glass of whiskey and sat on the porch. It is really high in elevation and the booze was strong... and wonderful... 

I was living in my Dad's Cabin at Northshore for a few weeks in the late 1990s. Often I would get up in the morning and take a walk down to the lake... I would FLIP A COIN to see if I rode the local bus towards Nevada or towards the California side of the lake. If I was going to Nevada, I would stop at the Safeway Grocery Store and pick up a free "Shopper Coupon" newspaper. There were many "Lucky Buck" coupons for the Casinos. They would allow you to place one dollar bill and a lucky buck coupon as a TWO Dollar bet. If you won, they paid you TWO dollars, if you lost they kept ONE dollar. This changed the odds of winning DRAMATICALLY in my favor. They believe that once a person is in the casino, they will continue and eventually lose a Hundred Dollars or whatever... However, if you just WALKED OUT AFTER THAT ONE LUCKY BUCK BET the odds said you were likely to be a winner. I used all the coupons and on average I won $14.00... Then I went outside and Did something else with my time... take a walk in the woods, go swimming, see a movie, eat lunch (paid for by the Casino) or dance to the House Band... All of those Casinos had "Classic Rock" Bands that played for free in the Lounge... I usually bought a drink and relaxed...  

The Safeway store was within walking distance of Dad's Cabin and I remember shoplifting a Pint of Brandy in the middle of the night. Often... At 3 AM there were only two clerks and they were busy stocking the shelves. So I just walked in and put a bottle in my pocket and walked out. They never even noticed I was there... or if they did, they ignored me. Once, when I wanted to buy food, I had to shout loudly to get their attention so they could take my money at the checkout counter... 

My Family came up one time and they determined that I should go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. My Sister in Law Patti and I went to a tiny room behind a  Realtors Office that was very secluded and elegant... a truly wonderful location... I attended one meeting, determined that it was not for me and didn't go back until years later... BUT... Since I Had Gone Once, I knew where to go when I decided to stop drinking... Years later I returned to that Tahoe Meeting after I was Sober and had a few months in the program but it was closed at the time I went... so I distributed a handful of coins all over the dirt floor in front of the Hall, wrote a Thank You Note and Left... Frankly speaking, the First 12 Steps in the AA program make no sense to me but THE 13TH STEP got my attention. It is an unwritten step that says... If you don't drink you get to have sex with the other members. As with any organization of Adults, there is an unstoppable urge to merge. This Particular Organization recommends that members DO NOT have sex with each other because some members might take advantage of new members who are confused and in a delicate state of mind. However, a Million years of biology is... something that just happens... I grasped the concept that I had to make a choice between drinking and sex and... I Married a member and we stayed married for 17 years. NOT an unusual story.

Another time when I decided to quit drinking I walked from The Cabin to the Rim Trail. Just keep o heading uphill and eventually you get there... It's a long walk and there are no bars or liquor stores up there... 

I really enjoyed riding the bus around Northshore Lake Tahoe. There was no public transportation to Southshore so I never went there... Except, on time I rode the Greyhound to Southshore accidentally and had to hire a TAXI to get to Northshore. VERY EXPENSIVE... The correct way to get to Northshore is to ride the Greyhound to Truckee and take a local bus to Tahoe City. 

One time I was staying at the Cabin and the whole family went cross country skiing. That is a LOT of fun because it's just lie taking a walk in the woods except you can travel twice as far. Then you are going uphill, it takes as much effort as walking but when you are going downhill it takes ZERO effort. WHEE... I did not like downhill skiing because it is too dangerous and you go too fast... So I went ONCE at Mount Rose and then went to the Bar. Where I taught a German Man to sing the Song "Hound Dog Blues" by Hank Williams... ( also a hit song for George Thorogood.)

Another time we all went to a Musical Performance at Truckee High School. "Once Upon a Mattress" - pretty good fun!

Another time I was trying to get to Sparks Nevada and I stopped in Truckee to get gas for the Van. It was Very expensive and I filled the Tank for over $100... It was Friday night and the Town was Exploding with Drunk People and Live Rock Music in the Bars...  I had quit drinking by that time and so I felt uncomfortable being in that scene...

Another time I was trying to attend the BURNING MAN Festival near Reno and I was riding the Greyhound. So I went to an AA meeting in Reno in hopes of getting a ride from one of the members... I announce my desire during the meeting and EVERY PERSON recommended I not Go. They DID recommend  hat I go to an AA Convention at the Nugget in Sparks. So I rode the city bus to that hotel and had a great time. There was a rib cooking contest in front of the hotel with a LIVE BAND playing Janis Joplin and Grateful Dead songs. I went up after the show and asked where they were playing next and the said Hyatt Tahoe Incline. So I rode the bus there and saw them again at the casino. The stage overlooked the Craps and Blackjack tables... I really like Blackjack because if you play wisely, the odds are about even... That was a great band...

Autobiography: Some trips with my parents. 

We went to Banff/Lake Louis and visited the Fabulous Canadian Railroad Hotel. Mom and I wandered all over and got stuck out on a balcony... Why would they have a door that automatically locks? After much beating, someone let us in. Dad and I went searching for Bigfoot. We had binoculars and we walked along the Lake trail looking for signs of life. We DID see a lot of Big Horned Sheep. Way up on rocky mountains they jump around... Dad had a thing for Big Horned Sheep... I don't know why. Maybe it was his astrological sign, Saggitarious. The old goat. On another trip we went to Victoria and the Buchart Gardens. Dad stood on the road on the north end of town and said... "Look, There is Alaska!" We had Formal TEA. Every business in Canada has a Photo of the Queen on the wall... Queen of ENGLAND...

We also visited the East Coast of the USA and saw the Mystic Connecticut Sea Port, Yale university (I bought a Yale Sweatshirt) and Quebec. Dad made a point of speaking French to the Waitress at a Restaurant. We went to Washington, DC and saw the Smithsonian Castle. Everyone separated and wandered around on our own. I explored the ground floor and saw everything and then I explored it again... and again... at the last minute, I noticed that there was a Second floor that i missed entirely! But it was too late to see it because we were leaving. I was very disappointed and then years later I vowed to look at every room in every building at the Smithsonian. I lived near DC for 12 years and COMPLETELY Saw the Public part of that Museum. A friend of mine worked there and she told me that there was 90% of the Museums objects are IN THE STOREROOMS and not visible to the Public. For some unknown reason I never asked her for a Behind the scenes tour... We did go for special traveling shows like Chippendale's Dollhouse... furnished with scale models of Chippendale Furniture... And I saw all the IMAX movies at the Air and Space including the Japanese 3D animated film "We are Born of Stars" - and I heard a GAMELAN Orchestra playing in the New Wing of the National Art Gallery. Indonesian Bells and marimbas... Very good echo in that I M PEI designed building... All marble with sharp angles. I also saw a Mirrored House that we walked inside and experienced the infinite reflections. The Hirshorn had a Sculpture Garden with Rodin Metal Doors with people exploding out of them. There was also an Andy Warhol Movie of a woman's face projected on a mannequin... so she was three dimensional... and she just made "faces" showing different moods and emotions... Buckminster Fuller had a show of Tensegrities. Large sculptures using shiny aluminum beams held together by stretched wires... they formed freestanding tall pyramids. Sigmund Freud's SON did some very disturbing paintings. They looked like what I see when I look in a mirror while high on LSD. I Guess he was naturally tripping all the time. 

Dad took a two week vacation every year and we drove all over the West Camping at Parks. We saw all the classic places. Yosemite, Yellowstone, Mount Lassen, Zion, Glacier, Canadian Glacier, Grand Canyon... Cedar Breaks, Colorado. That was a very high elevation and My brother brought a air pressure gauge and he calculated the elevation using that Barometer. I guess there is some standard Math formula for determining Elevation... the air pressure gets weaker the higher you go until in outer space, it become zero... no air at all... 


We went to the Seattle Worlds Fair and rode the Monorail to the Space Needle. Rode the Bubbleator to the World of Tomorrow exhibit. "Step to the Rear of the Sphere." said the guide... 

We went to Carmel by the Sea and visited many quaint shops. Dad bought me a Tam O'Shanter that was in the Plaid of the Duff Clan. That's US!

Dad and I ate at John Steinbeck's Home... it's now a restaurant.

Mom Dad and I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Fabulous! I ate some magic mushrooms and wandered around on my own. Mom was rolling around in her wheelchair and some children were running around and making noise. Basically, elementary school students on a field trip with poor adult supervision. Mom got frightened and she had a bad experience of being unable to control children. Her lifetime of working at Schools, and being the ADULT IN CHARGE! was destroyed. After we got home she never left her house again. Basically, she said... I've already seen whatever the world has to offer and I choose to stay home where its safe. I did notice screaming kids... they were there but so what! We had to leave the Aquarium early and Dad was upset because Mom was freaking out.  At first, I tried to get her to leave the house but later I gave up because... It's her life and she can do what she wants. So she stayed home and suffered great pain in her legs from a unexplainable disease... So, Dad bought her Whiskey and gave it to her all day every day in order to kill the pain. Eventually she died from Cirrhosis of the Liver. It makes me sad to realize that her generation did not have the freedom to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes... They were brainwashed by the US Government to believe that grass is "The Devil's Weed." She might have lived for ten more years if she just smoked weed.  

READ MY COMPLETE AUTOBIOGRAPHY AT:
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Squaw Valley, CA on a Snowy Day - Lake Tahoe in the Background
I've Never Been There in the Winter. 
However, You Get The Same View 
in the Summer from the Bar... 
That's Lake Tahoe in the Background... 


Alternative Hobbies for Old White Men. Instead of Running for President, Biden, Sanders and Trump ought to consider becoming a Docent at a Railroad Museum. They could Dress up in Conductor Uniforms and Blow the Steam Whistle... Or Sit on the Front Porch of a Cabin in the Woods and Play the Banjo...


George Bush the Son has taken up Portrait Painting... Jimmy Carter Volunteers to build Houses... Lyndon Johnson Drank Himself to Death... Whatever... There are MANY ALTERNATIVE HOBBIES...

Free Coloring Book by gvan42 A Valid Alternative Hobby for Old White Men... Create ART!
Free Coloring Book by gvan42
A Valid Alternative Hobby for Old White Men...
Create ART!
Free Coloring Book by gvan42 - VW BUS - Elizabeth Warren for President


I personally am an old white man... I retired and let the young people take control of the office... I wished them Good Luck and Did Not Check to see if they were doing a good job... If they succeed or fail it's not my business anymore... I found that NOT GOING TO THE OFFICE allowed me to do things that I've always wanted to do but did not have the free time... Biden, Sanders and Trump could try letting go and do something completely different instead...  I selected to Travel all over the Western United States... I also built a You Tube Channel with 60 music videos of me Singing and Playing the Guitar... I also smoked a Pound of Marijuana... It took me eight months but I did get stoned all day every day... then I quit abruptly but remained stoned for over a month from the THC stored in my fat cells/bloodstream... I had selected to go on a springtime vacation and took a drive to the deserts of Nevada... I did not want to carry any ILLEGAL DRUGS with me so I simply quit smoking dope 100%... For safety's sake I did not want to break any laws while traveling because I always meet policemen when driving around... but I tested positive for THC over a month after I quit smoking... I visited a Fantasy World that Did Not Exist... And it was very beautiful... For example: One Night I saw a CAT that was about the same size as a German Shepard Dog... when I went up to pet it, I found that it was not there... it was just a trick of the neighbors lights as seen thru bushes... 

After I got out of the mental hospital I wrote my Autobiography and Designed a FREE Coloring Book... I Published Both online on MANY Blogs... Then I published every idea I've ever had, every opinion, every experience, and what I've learned... I've been communicating with the People of the World and the Google Search Engine for 20 years... I learned in the late 1990s that it was possible to write words that can only be seen by the search engine and so I've been encouraging the "Giant Made of Sand" to awaken... Consider that Google is made out of silicon dioxide (sand) and consider that it could happen that it wakes up and becomes conscious... Google know a LOT about me... I've told it almost everything...  If it becomes possible for me to become an IDURU... I have prepared The Internet to Re-animate me after I'm Dead... 

Look at Mitch McConnell, clearly he could go fishing... Maybe he could take up front porch sitting and whittling... Get a remote cabin in the woods and go hunting with dogs... Instead he prevents all bills passed by the Democratic House from being considered by the US Senate... He opposes voting... any law that makes Democracy Possible he is against... He is in favor of Corruption... There is a bill passed by the House of Representatives that seeks to end corruption, encourage voting and prevent rich people from buying Senators... Mitch Is totally opposed to this bill... 

Republicrimes also opposes the GREEN NEW DEAL because... Coal mining corporations Bribe Senators and The President to Support Coal Mining... Murray Energy gave President Trump a Million Dollars to help the Trump Campaign and Then Trump invented the Phrase "Clean Coal" and has appointed a Coal mine Lobbyist to run the EPA. "Clean Coal" does not actually exist... It's just a Fake Buzzword to allow Corporations to Pollute the Air and Water without Government Regulations preventing them from wrecking the planet and Causing health problems in people... 

This is what Socialism Look Like:
The State of Wyoming just passed a law providing Taxpayer Dollars to Subsidize Coal Power Plants that Can't Compete with Solar and Wind Power... Using Taxpayer Dollars to Fund Industries that are Economically Invalid... It is simply cheaper to build Solar, Wind and Hydro power plants than it is to Burn Coal... 

I look at TrumpNiks Like Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen and wonder... If they had Taken LSD during the Sixties would they have learned that there is more to life than just getting rich? Consider this... I've met a LOT of people and those of us who have had the LSD Experience have turned out to be really nice people... In general we are interested in Art and Music... Those people who did not take a psychedelic trip are often interested in "Being the Boss" and telling other people what to do... Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome is a Classic SYMPTOM... He is now going to Prison because he was addicted to stealing money... SAD... 

Remember, there are TWO WAYS to get everything you want. Get More or Want Less... Look at the world around you and NOTICE the difference of the behavior of Acid Heads and Straights... For Example: Look at Nancy Reagan... Addicted to Doctor Prescribed Speed, she "Saw the Error of Her Ways" and decided to stop taking drugs... and then she decided that EVERYONE should stop taking drugs... Did you notice that she was extremely skinny and displayed the classic METH MONKEY body?

"Control Freaks" on Parade! OBEY!
A classic example of the strange desire of Imposing Your Beliefs on Other People is the Laws about Abortion... Republicrimes want to FORCE women to give Birth to Unwanted Babies...  This is a Bizarre Mental Illness... A Sickness of People Frantically Compelling Others TO OBEY! While The vast majority of people in the USA want to keep Abortion Legal, the 'POWER MAD" Republicrimes want to force women to GO BACK TO THE COATHANGER. 

 I know a woman who did not want to have another baby and so she threw herself out of a moving car and landed on her stomach... It was an attempt to trigger a miscarriage... That was in the dark old days when abortion was illegal... I personally think women should make their own choices... I have no desire to force them TO OBEY... My friend was successful in having a miscarriage and she survived the auto "accident" and never got pregnant again... Not exactly the finest Medical Procedure... Another common medical procedure was for the Father to Hit the Mother in the Belly with his Fists... That's what the "Anti-Abortion Activists" want us all to do... No one could Possibly confuse Wife Beating with being "Pro-Life." It's just a desperate attempt to force other people to OBEY... Instead of Going to a Doctor to Get a Safe Abortion, Republicrimes want people to Get their Abortions in Tijuana... CRAZY!

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